We're not salespeople, but we depend on donations averaging $14.76 and fewer than 1% of readers give. Amen. Hail MARY, faithful Spouse of the Holy Ghost. Credo: 1) Faith in the presence of God. Amen. The scorn and insults he received from his tormenters because of his nakedness. Our Father. Our Father. Our Father, three Hail Marys, Glory be to the Father. We offer you, Lord Jesus, this first decade in honour of your Incarnation. I renounce all Through this mystery and the intercession of your holy Mother we ask for a firm hope and a great longing for heaven. Our Father, ten Hail Marys, Glory be to the Father. Thou art all mine by mercy, and I am all thine by justice. Hail Mary, well-beloved daughter of the eternal Father, admirable Mother of the Son, most faithful spouse of the Holy Spirit, glorious temple of the Blessed Trinity. Amen. Hail my joy, my glory, my heart and my soul! At the end of the second: More impressive still, workmen did not take up their tools until after they had greeted me by saying my Rosary and they did not retire at night without again praying to me on their knees. Mt 22: 38). Through this mystery and the intercession of your blessed Mother we ask for the gift of wisdom and purity of heart and body. As a result she is also the favorite daughter of the Father and the temple of the Holy Spirit. Hail my joy, my glory, my heart and my soul! For example: Jesus incarnate, Jesus sanctifying, etc. All the Saints of Paradise, ask etc. Hail Mary, admirable Mother of the Son! Holy Powers, ask etc. If thou still seest in me anything which does not belong to thee, I beseech thee to take it and to make thyself the absolute Mistress of all that is mine. . The blood he shed and the wounds he received. 3. Hail Mary ten times, adding "Jesus becoming man". It is superstitious being based on counting prayers. Amen. We offer you, O Lord Jesus, this fourth decade in honour of your presentation in the temple by the hands of Mary. To honour his hidden, hard working and obedient life at Nazareth. To honour the five wounds of Jesus Christ and the shedding of his blood on the Cross. Our Lady one day said to Saint Mechtilde, 'All the Hail Marys you have given me are blazoned on my cloak. To be supported at the hour of judgment by as many intercessors as there are members of the confraternity of the Rosary. The Rosary is a divine Summary of the mysteries of Jesus and Mary in which we proclaim and commemorate their life, passion and glory. Hail my joy, my glory, my heart and my soul! Hail Mary, admirable Mother of the Son! that I may have no other heart but thine to love God Fonti Francescane, 281) contains different levels of analogies, there is not a shadow of doubt that it expresses effectively Our Lady's special participation in the life of the Most Holy Trinity. Your gift is tax-deductible as allowed by law. 54. "Jesus ascending to heaven". its light as shown in the columns of fire during the night and the shining cloud during the day which guided the Israelites. We ask of you a lively faith, a firm hope and an ardent charity. Hail Mary, admirable Mother of the Son! me. The reprobate crown themselves with faded roses. ibid., n. 58). "Thus, through the sermons of my very dear Dominic and through the power of the Rosary the heretical regions became submissive to the Church. O Blessed Virgin Mary, we offer you this creed to honour the faith you had upon earth and to ask you to permit us to share in that same faith. May the grace of the mystery of the Ascension of Our Lord come into me and prepare me for heaven. Again, in prayer to the Mother of the Lord, St Louis Marie expresses the Trinitarian dimension of his relationship with God: "Hail Mary, beloved Daughter of the Eternal Father! The third is the royal crown or crown of goodness that we give her by the glorious mysteries. Amen. The blows and the spittle rained upon his face. Hail Mary, my Federal Tax Identification Number: 81-0596847. Prayer which contains a summary of all we must ask of God. its fruitfulness as shown in the net that St. Peter by order of Our Lord threw into the sea and which though filled with 153 fish did not break. Hail Mary, faithful spouse of the Holy Ghost! Hail Mary ten times. But I am not yet sufficiently thine. St Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort wrote the Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin at the beginning of the 1700s, but the manuscript remained practically unknown for more than a century. In addressing Jesus, St Louis Marie expresses the marvel of the union between the Son and the Mother: "She is so transformed into you by grace that she lives no more, she is as though she were not. Hail Mary, my dear Mother, my loving Mistress, my powerful sovereign! Gt Britain & Ireland (General Delegation), Tercentenary prayer and reflection leaflets, His collaborator - Blessed Marie-Louis Trichet, Letter to the Members of the Company of Mary. We offer you, Lord Jesus, this fifth decade in honour of your being found in the temple by Mary; through this mystery and her intercession we ask for true wisdom. Slowly and calmly with pauses in the prayers. 1.Say the "Come Holy Spirit" and then make this offering of the Rosary: I unite with all the saints in heaven and with all the just on earth; I unite with you, my Jesus, to praise your holy Mother worthily and to praise you in her and by her. Hail my joy, my glory, my heart and my "All our perfection", St Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort writes, "consists in being conformed, united and consecrated to Jesus Christ; and therefore, the most perfect of all devotions is, without any doubt, that which most perfectly conforms, unites and consecrates us to Jesus Christ. Amen. And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home" (Jn 19: 25-27). Son, faithful Spouse of the Holy Spirit, august Temple of the most Holy Trinity! Among saintly people: the famous holy women of Rome, Sister Mary of the Incarnation. I want you to know that the Hail Mary gives me so much joy that no man could ever really describe it"' (Guillaume Pepin, In Rosario aureo, Sermon 47). For in the mystery of the Church, which is herself rightly called mother and virgin, the Blessed Virgin stands out in eminent and singular fashion as exemplar both of virgin and mother" (ibid., n. 63). V: Hail Mary, beloved Daughter of the Eternal Father! May the grace of the mystery of Our Lord's Crowning with Thorns come into me and make me truly opposed to the world. day and every moment of my life I may say: Amen, So "Jesus risen from the dead". This is in no way a form of "millenarianism", but a deep sense of the eschatological character of the Church linked to the oneness and saving universality of Jesus Christ. 8.We offer you, Lord Jesus, this first decade in honour of your Incarnation in Mary's womb; through this mystery and her intercession we ask for deep humility. The We pray also for the light of glory to see you face to face and love you during all eternity. We will say one Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be for the intentions of the Holy Father and for absent members, living and dead. Indulgence for the recitation of the Rosary. And so they turn their eyes to Mary who shines forth to the whole community of the elect as the model of virtues" (n. 65). The flight of Jesus to Egypt through St. Joseph's obedience to the voice of the angel. Our Father. Our Blessed Lady revealed to a devout soul In each mystery, after the word Jesus, add a word to recall and honour the particular mystery. Resurrection, and we ask of Thee, through this Mystery and through the Among kings and queens: St. Louis, Philip I, King of Spain, Queen Blanche. After they have completely bathed her in happiness they gush back into the bosom of God. intercession of Thy holy Mother, love of God and fervor in Thy service. This is most necessary because, to quote Our Lord's words, there is a danger of his coming to take the Word of God out of people's hearts, "lest believing they might be saved. Prayer to Mary of St. Louis De Montfort . 1. Be steadfast and persevere. Hail Mary, beloved Daughter of the Eternal Father! Our Father, ten Hail Marys, Glory be to the Father. its marvellous fruitfulness as shown in the parable of the mustard seed which, although so small in appearance, becomes a great tree in which the birds of the air make their nests. Amen. "Jesus carrying his Cross". Amen. St. Peter and St. Paul and all the holy Apostles, ask of God etc. Heb 10: 7), subsequently humbled himself by making himself obedient unto death, and death on the Cross (cf. so be it--to all that thou art now doing in Heaven; But I am not yet sufficiently thine. We offer Thee, O Lord Jesus, this twelfth decade in honor of Thy triumphant The Rosary contains the angelic greeting which is the most pleasing prayer we can offer our Blessed Lady. in Luc., 12, 26: PL 15, 1561), he writes: "A soul is happy indeed when it is all possessed and overruled by the spirit of Mary, a spirit meek and strong, zealous and prudent, humble and courageous, pure and fruitful" (Treatise on True Devotion, n. 258). Denis the Carthusian, speaking of a vision of Our Lady to one of her clients, said, "We should greet the Blessed Virgin with our hearts, our lips and our deeds, so that she will not be able to say to us, 'These people honour me with their lips but their hearts are far from me.". souls. True Christians crown him with fragrant roses. The love of the eternal Father in giving us his Son. Indeed, as the Second Vatican Council recalled, "Devoutly meditating on her [Mary] and contemplating her in the light of the Word made man, the Church reverently penetrates more deeply into the great mystery of the Incarnation" (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, n. 65). Paradoxically, this "bond of charity", this "slavery of love", endows the human being with full freedom, with that true freedom of the children of God (cf. May the grace of the mystery of Pentecost come into our souls. You are all mine by mercy, and I am all yours by justice. 15.At the end of the third Rosary the following prayer is said: [Prayer to the Blessed Virgin] 51. Hail Mary ten times. Step 1: The rosary prayer begins with the sign of the cross, In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. We offer you, Lord Jesus, this tenth decade in honour of your Crucifixion on Mount Calvary. It's a little awkward to ask, but we need your help. of Thy Essence and the Trinity of Thy Persons. the strength of the holy Rosary against the world, as prefigured by that small stone, which, thrown by no hand of man, fell upon the statue of Nebuchadnezzar and broke it into pieces. She also learned that every time the Hail Mary is said by the faithful the three mysterious streams surround Our Lady in a mighty current rush to her heart. Catholic Online Saints - thousands of saints bios. The veil of Veronica on which his face was imprinted. Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary 0 Virgin Mary, most powerful Mother of Mercy, Queen of Heaven and earth, in accordance with your wish made known at Fatima, I consecrate myself today to your . St. Abraham and all the holy Patriarchs, ask of God etc. But I am not yet sufficiently thine. We offer you, Lord Jesus, this fourteenth decade in honour of the Immaculate Conception of your holy Mother and her assumption into heaven body and soul. The devil, who is the enemy of the human race and of the preaching of the gospel, is driven off by the Hail Mary. Lord, When Did We See You Hungry or Thirsty or a Stranger or Naked or Ill or in Prison? To honour the triple crown which Mary received from the Holy Trinity. Among the cardinals: St. Charles Borromeo. thee, I was the first to be abandoned. May the grace of the mystery of the Resurrection come into our souls. It is an invention of Religious to make money. faithful spouse of the Holy Ghost! The Rosary is the tree of life which bears marvellous fruits all the year round. continuous sight of God fill my memory with His According to the words of the Second Vatican Council, Mary "is hailed as pre-eminent and as a wholly unique member of the Church, and as her type and outstanding model in faith and charity" (Lumen Gentium, n. 53). The blood which poured from his adorable head. The choice of the twelve apostles and the powers he gave them. Step 14: Complete your rosary by reciting the following prayers. by the power of prayer and mortification, he received the holy Rosary in the forest of Toulouse. I believe in God; Our Father; three Hail Marys. 51-52). May the grace of the Mystery of the Carrying of the Cross come down into our Hail my joy, my glory, my heart and my soul! The welcome and triumphant acclaim which he received from God, his Father and from all the heavenly court. Hail Mary, my dear Mother, my loving mistress, my powerful sovereign! Amen. His pierced heart and the Cross upon which he was crucified. Plenary indulgence on enrolment in the confraternity. We offer you, Child Jesus, this third decade in honour of your holy Birth. May the grace of the Mystery of the Annunciation come down into our souls. Hail Mary ten times. We offer you, Lord Jesus, this Creed in honour of all the mysteries of our faith, the Our Father and three Hail Marys in honour of the unity of your being and the Trinity of your persons. Our Father, ten Hail Marys, Glory be to the Father. For mutual help at the hour of death which is so difficult and so important. Hail Mary ten times. Treatise on True Devotion, n. 34). V: Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. the sight of God and make up for all that is wanting in faithfully. The peace, the authority and the mission he gave them to go out into the whole world. know Jesus and His divine will; that I may have no FORMOSA. Almsgiving became widespread; churches and hospitals were built; people led pure and honourable lives; real wonders were accomplished. Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!'. Through this mystery and through the intercession of your holy Mother we ask for a lively faith. Indeed, the ecce venio in the Letter to the Hebrews (cf. The doctrine of the Mystical Body that most forcefully expresses Christ's union with the Church is also the biblical foundation of this affirmation. Her birth which gladdened the whole world. Amen. Hail Mary, faithful spouse of the Holy Ghost! The comfort he consented to receive from an angel in his agony. of my sins; may thy merits be my only adornment in We offer you, Lord Jesus, this eighth decade in honour of your being Crowned with Thorns; through this mystery and the intercession of your holy Mother we ask for contempt of the world. Those who say the holy Rosary every day have a share in what the saints are doing in heaven which is the same as they were doing upon earth meritoriously, for they who are on earth are doing what the saints are doing in heaven. Hail, Mary, my Mother. Hail Mary, beloved Daughter of the Eternal Father, admirable Mother of the Amen. 14th "Jesus raising thee up" the marvellous effects the Rosary has had wherever it was preached. The Holy Spirit invites Mary to reproduce her own virtues in the elect, extending in them the roots of her "invincible faith" and "firm hope" (cf. Indulgence for those who are unable to visit the church of the Rosary, or receive Communion, or take part in a procession. The holy man called upon the Mother of the Saviour, imploring her as advocate of sinners to come to the aid of the people. We offer you, Lord Jesus, this twelfth decade in honour of your glorious Ascension. PRAYER OF ST. LOUIS DE MONTFORT TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY Hail Mary, beloved Daughter of the Eternal Father! As I once again make my own this hope which I expressed, along with the other Council Fathers almost 40 years ago, I send to the entire Montfort Family a special Apostolic Blessing. down into our souls. Hail MARY, admirable Mother of the Son. Catholic.org - with thousands of pages of magisterial content. Amen Holy Virtues, ask etc. The congregation will derive more fruit from a sermon that is prefaced by the Hail Mary. Hail Mary, my dear Mother, my loving Mistress, my powerful sovereign! Mary is our sovereign and our mediatrix, our Mother and our Mistress. Our Father, ten Hail Marys, Glory be to the Father. It is too long and too tiresome a prayer. To be ever asking pardon for our daily sins. The nails and the lance which pierced him, the sponge, the gall and the vinegar which he was given to drink. Amen. 5. We thus preserve a continuous remembrance of the mysteries of Jesus and Mary. Those who say it in haste and to get it over with. The Rosary became so well known that people who were devout were considered by others as being obviously confraternity members. I choose thee today for my Mother and Mistress. pride; may thy sublime contemplation check the distractions "Jesus sacrificed". Hail Mary ten times. ibid., n. 53; St Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses, III, 21, 10-22, 4). The Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father and the Son by the way of love. Amen. Destroy in me all that may he displeasing The obedience of Christ and the obedience of Mary are not, of course, symmetrical because of the ontological difference between the divine Person of the Son and the human person of Mary. We offer Thee, O Lord Jesus, this fifteenth decade in honor of the Coronation intercession, the gift of true wisdom. resurrection and triumphant Assumption of Thy holy Mother into Heaven, and we Those who say it out of hypocrisy, lacking any devotion. As for my part here below, I wish for no HAIL MARY, BELOVED DAUGHTER OF THE ETERNAL FATHER. Our Father, ten Hail Marys, Glory be to the Father. the restoration of the Rosary by Blessed Alan de la Roche. which does not belong to thee, I beseech thee to 49.Through the Rosary, hardened sinners of both sexes became converted and began to lead a holy life, regretting their past sins with genuine tears of sorrow. St. Joseph and all the holy Confessors, ask of God etc. "Jesus crowned with thorns". It is thy privilege to see God "One night when a woman member of the Confraternity had retired, Our Lady appeared to her and said, 'My daughter, do not be afraid of me. Web: www.Philomena.org Amen. St Louis Marie expresses this with a range of nuances, when in his letter he expounds on the "marvellous effects" of perfect Marian devotion: "The more, then, that you gain the favour of that august Princess and faithful Virgin, the more will you act by pure faith; a pure faith which will put you above all sensible consolations and extraordinary favours; a lively faith animated by charity, which will enable you to perform all your actions from the motive of pure love; a faith firm and immovable as a rock, through which you will rest quiet and constant in the midst of storms and hurricanes; a faith active and piercing, which like a mysterious skeleton key, will give you entrance into all the mysteries of Jesus, the ultimate goal of man, and into the heart of God himself; a courageous faith, which will enable you to undertake and carry out without hesitation great things for God and for the salvation of souls; lastly, a faith which will be your blazing torch, your divine life, your hidden treasure of divine wisdom and your omnipotent arms, which you will use to enlighten those who are in the darkness of the shadow of death, to inflame those who are lukewarm and who have need of the heated gold of charity, to give life to those who are dead through sin, to touch and move by your meek and powerful words the hearts of stone and the cedars of Lebanon, and finally, to resist the devil and all the enemies of salvation" (cf. The brothers of St. Dominic had so great a love for this holy devotion that it made them hurry to church or choir more willingly. Thou art all mine by mercy, and I am all thine by justice. The tongues of fire he sent to the apostles giving them an understanding of the scriptures and love of God and neighbour. 9th "Jesus carrying his Cross" To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. The love of the Son who gave himself up for us. O God of our fathers, Lord of mercy, Spirit of truth, I, a mere worm of the earth, prostrate before your divine Majesty, acknowledging the great need I have of your divine wisdom which I have lost through my sins and trusting in the unfailing promise you have made to all those who ask with confidence, I come before you today to beg this grace of you with all possible earnestness and the greatest humility. May the grace of the Agony of Jesus come into me and make me truly contrite and perfectly obedient to the will of God. May the grace of the Mystery of the Coronation of the Blessed Virgin come The greeting of Mary and the sanctification of St. John Baptist and of his mother St. Elizabeth. All materials contained on this site, whether written, audible or visual are the exclusive property of Catholic Online and are protected under U.S. and International copyright laws, Copyright 2022 Catholic Online. 11.At the end of the second rosary the following prayers are said kneeling: [Prayer composed by Fr. clearly; it is thy privilege to enjoy heavenly bliss; it is Apostles' Creed, Our Father, three Hail Marys, Glory Be We offer Thee, O Lord Jesus, this first decade in honor of Thine Incarnation HAIL, HOLY QUEEN, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope! Her Immaculate Conception and her fullness of grace and reason in the very womb of St. Anne. St Louis Marie contemplates all the mysteries, starting from the Incarnation which was brought about at the moment of the Annunciation. Amen. Hail Mary, beloved Daughter of the Eternal Father! souls. Amen. From the Vatican, 8 December 2003, Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Copyright Dicastero per la Comunicazione - Libreria Editrice Vaticana. the Lord has given thee and which shall never be ". Now, Mary being the most conformed of all creatures to Jesus Christ, it follows that, of all devotions, that which most consecrates and conforms the soul to Our Lord is devotion to his holy Mother, and that the more a soul is consecrated to Mary, the more it is consecrated to Jesus" (Treatise on True Devotion, n. 120). Hail Mary, my dear Mother, my loving Mistress, my powerful sovereign! We can add a word to each mystery of the decade. Mystical identification with Mary is fully directed to Jesus, as he says in the prayer: "Finally, dearly beloved Mother, grant, if it be possible, that I may have no other spirit but yours, to know Jesus and his divine will; that I may have no other soul but yours, to praise and glorify the Lord; that I may have no other heart but yours, to love God with a love as pure and ardent as yours" (The Secret of Mary, pp. When, almost by chance, it was at last discovered in 1842 and published in 1843, the work was an instant success, proving extraordinarily effective in spreading the "true devotion" to the Most Holy Virgin. The adoration and the singing of the angels when Jesus was born. We beseech you, Lord Jesus, by the fifteen mysteries of your life, death, passion and glory, and the merits of your holy Mother, to convert sinners, to help the dying, to free the souls in purgatory, and to give all of us your grace so that we may live well and die well. May the grace of the Mystery of the Nativity come down into our souls. | about us. Amen. To make our prayers more powerful by being united with others. Introductory Prayer If you say "Mary', she says "God'. We can commemorate the saints at each decade and blend with one of the above-mentioned methods as the Holy Spirit inspires. 60, 62). His collapse through weakness into a pool of his own blood. See here for a short description of these methods. It is a gift come down from heaven; a great present that God gives to his most faithful servants. May the grace of Pentecost come into me and make me truly wise in the eyes of God. 68) To honour the desires and prayers of the Blessed Virgin Mary to bring forward the coming of the Messiah; and her marriage with Saint Joseph. Amen. give myself wholly to thee without keeping anything May the grace of the Mystery of the Scourging come down into our souls. The contentment of Jesus Christ in the humble and Virginal womb of Mary and that of Mary in the enjoyment of her God. "Jesus filling us with the Holy Spirit". St Elizabeth praised Mary and called her blessed because she had believed. All sinful though I am, I cast myself at thy feet and beseech thee to obtain from Jesus, thy beloved Son, contrition and pardon for all my sins, as well as the gift of divine wisdom. The Second Vatican Council placed great emphasis on Mary's faith, mysteriously shared by the Church, shedding light on the journey of Our Lady from the moment of the Annunciation to the moment of the redemptive Passion (cf. To honour his being stripped a third time. For this reason too, Mary "is also intimately united to the Church. in most need of Thy mercy. Her resurrection and triumphant Assumption.